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2 unusual facts about Colin Gubbins


Ill Met by Moonlight

The manuscript was written in early 1945 but was censored by the Head of SOE, Major-General Sir Colin McVean Gubbins (CD), by instruction to Colin Hercules Mackenzie (BB100), Head of Force 136.

Joan Bright Astley

In 1971, Joan Astley wrote of her wartime life in a memoir, The Inner Circle: a View of War at the Top, and in 1993 co-authored a book on Sir Colin Gubbins.



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